Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials: An Insider's Guide to Buying and Serving Cheese (with 50 Recipes) : Whether shopping at gourmet markets or at Costco, American consumers are seeing a growing, even dizzying, array of new cheeses. But as the number of cheeses has grown, so has the intimidation factor. Recognizing this disconnect between our voracious appetite for cheese and our often-sketchy knowledge of it, acclaimed cheese expert Laura Werlin decided it was high time to demystify the cheese-buying experience. Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials - a comprehensive introduction in a convenient guidebook format - is the extremely useful result.